Autotoolized Lua

These patches add GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool) configuration to Lua.

Usage

• Download Lua
• Download the latest patch file
• Install the patch using the appropriate directions
• Read the NEWS file for what's changed
• Read the README.autotool file for more information on configuration options
• Run

   ./configure --help

To see all of the options.

Current releases

Patch Installation

LUAV=X.Y.Z  # lua version
PR=P.Q      # patch release
tar xf lua-${LUAV}.tar.gz
bunzip2 lua-${LUAV}-autotoolize-r${PR}.patch.bz2
cd lua-${LUAV}
bash ../lua-${LUAV}-autotoolize-r${PR}.patch
patch -p0 < ../lua-${LUAV}-autotoolize-r${PR}.patch

Older Releases

Use above installation method

Use "Old" installation method described below

• lua-5.1.4-autotoolize-r1.patch.bz2
• lua-5.1.3-autotoolize-r1.patch.bz2
• lua-5.1.2-autotoolize-r1.patch.bz2
• lua-5.1.1-autotoolize-r1.patch.bz2

Old Patch Installation Method

LUAV=X.Y.Z  # lua version
PR=P        # patch release
tar xf lua-${LUAV}.tar.gz
cd lua-${LUAV}
bunzip2 -c ../lua-${LUAV}-autotoolize-r${PR}.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
chmod +x autogen.sh config.guess config.sub configure depcomp install-sh missing

Development

• There's a branch for each Lua version.
• Use ./autogen.sh to do the bootstrapping. This creates the configure script and other files needed during the build.
• Each released patch is related to a tagged commit.
• Patches are created in the releases branch using the generate-patch.sh script.
• makepatch is the preferred patch-generating tool, as it generates shell code to set file permissions.
• tests of the configure script are located in test.configure and use the bats test framework